So, seeing as it is now slightly past noon the next day for you lot, i'm going to head to bed early and hope that when i inevitably wake up around 4-5am (meaning like 10pm in canada) i find it released on my PC XD If not i have to go to work at 6 am anyway Q_Q

I don't think they are skipping it. I think they took some of the personnel from the development and moved them to Fortuna for its release in the coming weeks. They will go back to it after Fortuna has released. I suspect Melee 3.0 will release in December.

Honestly, the main problem i have with Melee 3.0 is still that IF we lose the melee combo multiplier damage, i'm going to lose effectively 75%+ of my melee damage. And no amount of fancy animations is going to make me feel good if i stand propped up against a lvl 120 enemy for 10+ seconds not killing them with half a dozen melee attacks until i get smacked down in one shot. I hope it doesn't come to that, but that's the CORE takeaway i got from all the melee 3.0 things i've seen so far. My combo multiplier traded for upgraded high jump ground slams which are not very usefull in tight corridor tilesets 😕

Will Power Donation give 7 capacity along with Steel Charge to standardize the Aura system? Inconsistency between Aura mods is why players who wish to use Umbral Mods always run Steel Charge. It would be nice if Aura Mods all offered 7 (or 9) additional capacity at max rank to level the playing field.

Preferably 9 to be honest. Having builds which are theoretically possible but flat out impossible due to not having enough points even at max forma with a potato isn't great - progression shouldn't feel hard capped

It's a beam shotgun so it's gonna be 39% per second. Beam weapons have had a problem with status procs because they apply them so slowly, particularly if you try to apply Corrosive to high level high armor enemies - so this thing will unfortunately share that problem even if it reaches 100% status chance per second with less than 4 hybrid mods

With gamescom less than a month away and Tennocon's crunch probably still in your guys's bones, is there ANY chance you're coming across the atlantic again this year? i was so happy to meet you back in 2015 when you last did a TennoVIP at gamescom, but the announcement for Gamescom still hasn't shown up - i hope it won't be canceled like the last 2 years 😱

Yup. Considering the sheer amount of bullS#&amp;&#036; we had to go through back in the day (i havent forgotten that draco interception while red text taunted the entire world about the 0,17% ratio of teams completing the mission) having it drop from a simple lvl 50 defense is a bit insulting. They could've at least matched the difficulty.

They do seem pretty hellbent on handing out all the old prestige stuff to as many newbs as possible at the moment - by the current speed i think the only prestigious item left by 2019 will be f*in excal prime xD